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...what's happening at the system level. I'd also like your smbd log... but first check your log level, which should be at 1 or 2, not 3. 3 produces too much overhead. Finally, if you can, run smbstatus to find the pid of the smbd that's serving the test client and run truss -d -p pid_from_smbstatus >cindy.truss while you do yet another repetition of the performance test. This will produce an ascii listing of every system call that smbd makes during the test, and can help us narrow down the suspects. Mail these to me with a meaningful subject line and we'll see what we can find. --d...